Renaissance Info on Printing press and fashion

Renaissance

Printing press – significantly changed the way that information was shared, it was invented by Johann Gutenberg in 1445, and this helped by producing books with little effort compared to hand writing everything. The printing press also meant that information could be shared to the masses a lot like the internet has done for the Information Age. The renaissance created industry and commerce thus ensuring that the average person could get all the same literacy opportunities as the more upper class.

Fashion
Clothing in the Renaissance helped distinguish wealth and social ranking, if you wore the right clothes you could be accepted in society even if you did not have a lot of money.
The church was a huge influence on clothing as he condemned people who focused too much on the new trends and the church saw this as a sign of vanity.
In hopes to control fashion and the trends the royals passed a law that only allowed the commoners to wear one colour, due to this the commoners created something ‘slashing’ by cutting their outer garments they allowed the second layer of material to show through. Soon even the royals were doing this and it became a huge trend.